Thursday, April 28, 2011

I was wondering why some of you Negroes can't make it in A-merry-ca. Thank god for elected republicans who can break it down for me. Who needs a bunch of social anthropologist telling us why certain groups are the way they are when you have people like Sally Kern.

Thank you Sally, it all seems so much simpler now.

"Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern, a Republican, made questionable remarks in the wake of a measure seeking to ban affirmative action programs advancing in the state, Tulsa World reports.

According to the local outlet:

Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, said minorities earn less than white people because they don’t work as hard and have less initiative.

“We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to study as hard in school? I’ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them.”

In light of the proposed constitutional amendment in question clearing the state House of Representatives on Wednesday evening, the GOP lawmaker also suggested women earn less than their male counterparts because they generally spend more time in the home.

The AP recently reported on the legislation:

The measure [will] put on the 2012 election ballot a provision that the state may not grant preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, color, sex, ethnicity or national origin. The ban would apply to public employment, education and contracting.Opponents say the proposal targets a non-existent problem. Several Democrats contend the bill is an attempt to use race to generate fear and draw conservative white voters to the polls. "[Source]

Sally, I think I know what it is; they think that just because their ancestors did all that work for nothing A-merry-ca owes them something. Sally, when will they learn that they can't depend on government handouts?Don't thy know that handouts are only for hardworking A-merry-cans?

Finally, I bet that Mr. Bad Hair is thinking that he should have kept his big mouth shut.

Seems my man's milk ain't so clean and folks are starting to dig. Apparently Mr. Bad Hair has been keeping company with some Tony Soprano types. (It makes sense, his hair already looks like he has been "sleeping with the fishes". ) [Story]

Anyway, now that he has decided to get into politics, he might want to lose his mob friends. Although, to be honest, they might be more honorable than the crowd he is hanging with these days.

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The raging mad beast has been howling the word Hobama since last night. God I hope the beast has worn itself out. It would be most gallant if Field would take out his sword and drive it through the heart of that monster.

Ms. Kern's views didn't end with the racist diatribe. Apparently she had a few choice words for women too:

"Women usually don't want to work as hard as a man... women tend to think a little bit more about their family, wanting to be at home more time, wanting to have a little more leisure time."

She also said:

"I am a belligerent racist who is sexually starved because I don't have any estrogen."

She didn't forget the Gays. In March of 2008 Kern said:

"Studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades. So it's the death knell of this country. I honestly think it's the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam — which I think is a big threat, okay? Cause what's happening now is they are going after, in schools, two-year olds...And this stuff is deadly, and it's spreading, and it will destroy our young people, it will destroy this nation."

[R] Sally Kern of Oklahoma City just plain made a racist statement that can not be denied. Period. Some people have hoof and mouth disease and should not be repricenting the people of any state. [R] T. W. Shannon's bill being discussing would level the playing field for all citizens of Oklanhoma when it comes to afirmative action but not remove federal funds from the program. However [D] Mike Shelton comparing disabled and veterans to ordinary citizens and they should not have preferential treatment in hiring because they served their country is just plain un-American. Should he really believe this then I wouldn't want him representing me or any veteran in America.

"I’ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them."

Now what [student/s] of color would actually tell her that? That racist pandering political prostitute made that up as she went along.

This woman is telling lies on black and brown adolescent children who are obviously under college level schooling. This is a lying devious individual. And that's why her nose is growing in the downward direction.

As the old people would say "you can hide from a thief, but you can't hide from a liar".

How can anyone make such statements in this day and age and get away with it unchecked? And you know, the only protest or at least voices that rise in protest seems to be these blogs! Where are the rap stars, writers, actors,politicians et al??? I do not hear their voices...

"How can anyone make such statements in this day and age and get away with it unchecked? And you know, the only protest or at least voices that rise in protest seems to be these blogs! Where are the rap stars, writers, actors,politicians et al??? I do not hear their voices..."

Desertflower, they are busy getting paid and chasing the A-merry-can dream.

"“We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to study as hard in school? I’ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them.”"

Well then, she should be able to cite her sources and deliver the whens and wheres of how she came across this information. Perhaps a few of her old students can come in and deliver their own opinions on this and other comments made by Rep. Kern.

And isn't Affirmative Action more or less a federal thing? How is the state gonna pull off this anti-Affirmative Action bill without bumping heads over it with D.C.?

"How can anyone make such statements in this day and age and get away with it unchecked? "

I've been thinking about the whole idea of what it means to be a white person in these United States, and I think I've stumbled across what irks me so much about the whole idea of...ahem...."whiteness".

Whites can afford to walk around with this air of cluelessness and obliviousness throughout nearly any area of their lives, and when such things hurt them, the penalty for such is relatively light for them, in most cases. They aren't burdened with this omnipresent self-consciousness about themselves or their actions, nor do they have to think, rethink and double-check their actions to make sure they aren't on the wrong side of some authority. A black person has to be conscious of their self and their actions, in order to safely navigate themselves around unspoken pitfalls and traps that could deny them opportunities, end their livelihoods and/or their lives.

Another thing that irks me is how whites readily trend towards their historic mental training of seeing blacks and other non-whites as "things", and not people. "Gee, those things are lazy. Why not move them off to the fields over there and make them actually work, for once?" When you see a fellow human being as "non-human" or "not one of us", it's piss-easy to do things to them that you normally wouldn't do to another human being (unless you harbor sociopathic tendencies, but that's a whole nother kettle of fish).

"And you know, the only protest or at least voices that rise in protest seems to be these blogs! Where are the rap stars, writers, actors,politicians et al??? I do not hear their voices..."

Sally Kern is just another honky who thinks her anecdote of black people is the norm for all black people>>>>>>>>>>>>

Naw Jiggabo sellout not all Black people, just YOU!

If selling out means not identifying and supporting ignorant people like you, then I SOLD OUT YEARS AGO.

Daily, you bring your ignorant and trifling ass on this board boasting about how educated you are and trashing people (Granny, Hathor, Maria, Jody, et al) who don't subscribed to your warped and pathetic way of thinking; yet, you expect people not to reciprocate.

People don't ridicule (or hate) you, because you are a self-proclaimed "confident and educated black woman." People ridicule you because you are an antagonistic bitch who lives for conflict. I can only assume that you offer no enrichment to the lives you encounter.

You are 40+ years old acting like a damn teenager with your baiting.

If you really knew the level of stupidity and ignorance that you convey daily (which is totally antithetical to your alleged level of education), you would start deleting your pollution.

"Desertflower, they are busy getting paid and chasing the A-merry-can dream"

So true. And this is a very sad situation, these comments are a form of violence and as such they hurt people. If Black representatives and other politicals started spouting the same rhetoric??? I guess it would come to open war, no? How long can one take hurtful comments such as those? This is some serious ish!

Mack Lyons said...Yeah, I'm moving waaaaaayyyy the fuck out of the way for this one. Eeeerybody make room!>>>>>>>>>>>

Make room for what? I don't go in on fruit cakes like "Diamond28310".

Fact is that granny and I have communicated a couple times by email over the past year so whateva' on that one. As for Maria (and I assume Diamond was the one who contacted her yesterday about my posts) I don't really give a flyin' flip. Ditto for Jody whomever the hell THAT is, obviously another assnon with a username.

Interesting "Diamond" has taken the company of women to "disparage" me and white women at that, which speaks to a larger NIGGERISH problem she has.

So Diamond, I can assure you I have no "angry" response" to your post. My hope is that you pick up all the feathers from your Boa which you've obvisouly ruffled to a significant extent after saying all that!

One more thing Diamond, that little diatribe of yours just proves that YOU are one the cowardly harassing for the past 2 years, assnons I responded to since you seem to have taken my posts so damn personal.

So like I said before, teaming up with the cowardly assnonynous white b*tches on the blog.

Well...what do you expect? We're living in "Post-RACIST" America. smh!

It is a pattern throughout history that’s embedded in our nation's foundation since the beginning of this country’s capitalism system. Affirmative Action complaint is an old trick out the hat when the economy is fragile and the fear that there are not enough jobs to go around. Believe it or not whites had the same complaint back during reconstruction and even in the 1950s, whites were hollering reverse discrimination. Just goes to show how bogus the complaint is. Check out “Whites Complain to FEPC”:

Sally Kern told a fib, no child told her that the government would take care of them. She embellished her story with a little white lie. Shameful and she is first lady of a church too? Lord help us today! Smh!

"Finally, white privilege persists because white people are motivated to preserve the status quo and at the same time are shielded from responsibility by the singular privilege of obliviousness."

Wasn't this one of Field's blogs he was feelin'? I can see why.

"Indeed, this covenant of ignorance/innocence is perhaps the primary way that whiteness protects its privileged position.[iii] Our cultivated inability (sometimes refusal) to see how the institutions and social structures of U.S. society favor white people allows us not only to enjoy our racial advantages but to defend them tenaciously. It is ironic that, in a society where so many of us are so poorly versed in science and history, the average white person, when challenged, turns out to be capable of expounding eloquently on abstract liberal principles, such as free market competition, individual choice, and the merits of meritocracy.[iv] Indeed, a statement such as “the best person should always get the job” probably sounds like common sense to most people. However, for this to be realized requires not only that every potentially qualified person has an equal chance of being considered, but also that there exists an unproblematically universal standard for making these decisions. In addition, the abstract terms of this discussion presuppose that the race of the people empowered to do the deciding can safely be ignored."

All of what I wanted to say about white privilege, already said in an eloquent, yet easily understandable way.

maybe grannies precense will make that nasty disgusting piss smelling ghettoese hoochie go away for a while whether rogue state alter ego or something else that nasty filth pile has no business here anon was rite to get into that nasty sows ass and tell it what was up shyt

Did you all see Lawrence O'Donnell last night. He truly went there with birther nut Orly Taitz. Yep, Mr.O'Donnell was out there in the field yesterday and wasn't playing with the cotton!! I got the impression that he truly felt what many black people feel on a daily basis when they have to deal with overt and subtle racist crap like that.

I can't stay long. Since, the last time I blogged or posted I've been going through it.

I've been to Texas and back. Lord knows after I left Texas, I said to myself that I do want to look at another freeway ever again. I have never seen so many freeways in my life. It was like driving on a freeway maze. I actually think I am suffering from freeway shock if it is such a thing.

Still working on my book, but something else came up. A couple of my cousins called me and gave some info, so I'll be leaving soon again to go back South. Only this time to more than one state.

"Make room for what? I don't go in on fruit cakes like "Diamond28310"."

Ah. I was expecting a knockdown, dragout throwdown behind that comment. Nevermind, then.

"So Anon28310 is the erstwhile "Jody".

I thought so."

I had no idea. I usually don't keep tabs on these folk who play persona-switching games.

"I even missed no_slappz...Help me Jesus! *wink*"

Aw, Granny :D

"Did you all see Lawrence O'Donnell last night. He truly went there with birther nut Orly Taitz. Yep, Mr.O'Donnell was out there in the field yesterday and wasn't playing with the cotton!! I got the impression that he truly felt what many black people feel on a daily basis when they have to deal with overt and subtle racist crap like that."

Those Republicans and Koch brothers got some plans for blacks that is not good. They want to be able to justify it, so they are trying to poison people's minds against blacks.

Koch brother's theme song...Money, money, money....

Be on the alert! The enemy is trying to figure out a way for corporations to takeover complete ownership of schools and a few other things. Already, colleges have different corporations popping up on campus across the country. Their targeting them as their next cows to milk. Only I call it another slick scheme to tranfer the wealth. Greed mixed with capitalism is a killer! The Republicans plan to finish the job by any means necessary or should I say by any deceptive means necessary and illegally if they have to and I do not have to tell you that we have some on the Supreme Court who are as crooked as that crooked street in San Francisco. A whole of money will make some people do some low down dirty things.

Hello Brother Field....a hello for Sister Granny as well. Texas has a lot of freeways for sure. You can see the heat from the cars and weather standing still on the freeways. Hope you are taking care of yourself...still to Granny. With all the knowledge based majority...there still is a need for people to see the "living in American" thru different lens. Thanks to RainyWalker. We are the "less than 1%" that put our life on the line. American gives special benefits for Harvard, banks,dairy/wheat farmers and etc. ...why cry about Vets having a lousy 10 points. points are given for other jobs that have still a certain complexion. 7 generations of firefighters??? Anyway I will end by telling Brother Field I will have "short lay" in Philly on my way to Atlanta to sat in Henry Aaron seat to watch a baseball game on Friday night,(present from son for my finally here 60th).. as well as attend the matriach of family birthday. One more thing...its good to see and hear younger people with open disdain for me and my kind. Gives an incentive to stay the course. Still a Panther.

“We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to study as hard in school?

Because field chose to highlight this woman's observations in the way that he has, it's clear he does not want to admit there is a link between the well documented academic underperformance of blacks and the social pathologies that afflict blacks, which, ulitmately connect to criminality and jail.

kern says:

I’ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them.”

If the preceding sentiment among blacks was not explicity stated to kern, its accuracy can be confirmed by observation. Or is there doubt about widespread dependency on government programs for food, shelter and a long list of social services among blacks?

In light of the proposed constitutional amendment in question clearing the state House of Representatives on Wednesday evening, the GOP lawmaker also suggested women earn less than their male counterparts because they generally spend more time in the home.

It's especially true for the women of the WNBA. They earn a lot less than the men in the NBA. How unfair! Really. It's atrocious. The women of the WNBA and the men of the NBA should receive the same pay.

Sally Kern of Oklahoma City just plain made a racist statement that can not be denied.

True, the conceptual truth of the statement cannot be denied.

Except by people who refuse to accept the fact that black academic achievement lags the achievement of asians and whites by the time kids are in third grade.

And -- to be clear -- the lagging is evident in classrooms where kids who are black, asian and white are all together.

Then there are the results of standardized tests that are given to almost all grade-school kids almost every year, followed by SAT scores.

The other day I was in Flushing, Queens, showing the neighborhood to a visiting German journalist. Flushing ia an asian neighborhood, where people crowd the sidewalks and make it clear they are busy.

We visited one of the busiest places in the area: the Flushing branch of the Queens Public Library. The building is big, and it was jammed. All three floors. People filled all the tables and were studying. And it was quiet, like libraries are supposed to be.

no_slappz said...We visited one of the busiest places in the area: the Flushing branch of the Queens Public Library. The building is big, and it was jammed. All three floors. People filled all the tables and were studying. And it was quiet, like libraries are supposed to >>>>>>>>

Let's chat about this Slappy!!!

I drive over 35 miles one way from White Mont. County in Maryland, to Black Prince George's County almost every weekend because I can't find a decent place to study for ALL THE WHITE FOLKS TALKING SO D*MN LOUD!!!!

So don't gimme this $hit about Black folks don't study when I'm using almost a half a tank of gas every weekend just to get to someplace reasonably quite so I CAN study!

One of his prime Atlantic City developments, the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, relied on a partnership with two investors reputedly linked to the mob, prompting New Jersey regulators to force Trump to buy them out.

My goodness. The government insisted that the bad guys go away, and all Trump had to do was follow government orders to buy their shares of a profitably business and keep their profits for himself. And even the mob guys quietly accepted the outcome.

Sounds like a major win for Trump.

And he employed a known Asian organized crime figure as a vice president at his Taj Mahal casino for five years, defending the executive against regulators’ attempts to take away his license, according to law enforcement officials.

This segment is even more humorous than the previous segment.

On one hand, the NJ government can drive the mob out of the NJ gambling business, but the NJ government is shaking in its boots when Trump gets angry and says How Dare You Accuse My Employee of Having Bad Friends.

As if there weren't a long list of legitimate and capable casino operators who would have immediately jumped in to replace Trump if NJ took his gambling license.

By the way, in one of Trumps heavy-handed deals, he sleaszed the Taj Mahal out of the hands of Merv Griffin, who was a reputable participant in the gambling business. Merv would have loved to replace Trump on the orders of the NJ Gaming Commission.

I drive over 35 miles one way from White Mont. County in Maryland, to Black Prince George's County almost every weekend because I can't find a decent place to study for ALL THE WHITE FOLKS TALKING SO D*MN LOUD!!!!

Two suggestions. Find a library full of asians. Or, do what adults with homes do and study at home. It's not as though a student who's got her own books needs a library.

no_slappz said...Two suggestions. Find a library full of asians. Or, do what adults with homes do and study at home. It's not as though a student who's got her own books needs a library.

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Regarding your "adults study in their home statement", I take it you don't have an advanced degree? Because more often than not when you're studying for an advanced degree, you'll need to use the facilities at your home University during times when the school isn't "open" for normal business. It's also called "changing your environment" something I guess only Blacks and Asians know anything about.

Or maybe Jewish students keep things like cadavers and mass spec equipment in the basements of their homes?

Because more often than not when you're studying for an advanced degree, you'll need to use the facilities at your home University during times when the school isn't "open" for normal business.

It appears you're now simply making up a story. If a student needs a lab, then a student needs a lab. Can't do lab work without getting into the lab. But it's no surprise that college labs are closed on weekends.

But you wrote about needing a library where there were no chatty whites intruding on your concentration, so you claim you drive 35 miles to a white-free facility. No mention of a lab, and I'm sure the library 35 miles away hasn't got one.

It's also called "changing your environment" something I guess only Blacks and Asians know anything about.

Oh. So you're home all week staring at the walls. Well, that explains a lot.

no_slappz said...As usual, you make no sense. If, as you say, the library near you is full of noisy whites, then you are saying there are no blacks other than yourself at the library.

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And as usual, you're making a racists ass of yourself.

I never said there weren't blacks at the library because I wasn't referring to a library in the first place!!! And YOU ASSumed there were no other Blacks there which isn't the case either.

What I said was that I have to go to places where Whites are in low numbers to find a decent place to study on the weekend!

And you're absolutely right, I have a VERY difficult time concentrating in places where all minibus driving soccer moms are there with their screaming, unruly, undisciplined children, running around everywhere and minibus riding teenagers are there talking loudly about absolutely NOTHING!!!

no_slappz said...But you wrote about needing a library where there were no chatty whites intruding on your concentration, so you claim you drive 35 miles to a white-free facility. No mention of a lab, and I'm sure the library 35 miles away hasn't got one.

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Do you have ANY reading comprehension skills? You brought up the rather stupid fact that "adults with homes study at home" and I simply provided reasons why that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Of course, it also told me you didn't have an advanced degree.

Look, next time you want to take a shot at me, make sure doing so doesn't also make you look like a dummy!

Also, I guess the story the White House issued to the MSM about the govern of HI having moved Obama's birth certificate to an isolated location was a lie as well, they forgot they told CNN in 2009 that they went paperless in 2001. So the document provided was a scan which was doctored in photoshop.

I asked the political researchers to dig into the question "why couldn't Obama produce the ORIGINAL birth certificate?"

This is what they forwarded. It seems to definitively answer the question. Since the show's mission is for Lou to be the explainer and enlightener, he should be sure to cite this during your segment tonite. And then it seems this story is dead - because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef.

Thx

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*In 2001 - the state of Hawaii Health Department went paperless.*Paper documents were discarded*The official record of Obama's birth is now an official ELECTRONIC record Janice Okubo, spokeswoman for the Health Department told the Honolulu Star Bulletin, "At that time, all information for births from 1908 (on) was put into electronic files for consistent reporting," she said.

Oh and also apparanlty immigration documents etc prove Obama manufactured his early life, so one set of lies begets another and another.

With so many lies and a photoshopped certificate, I almost don't believe.

I never said there weren't blacks at the library because I wasn't referring to a library in the first place!!! And YOU ASSumed there were no other Blacks there which isn't the case either.

What I said was that I have to go to places where Whites are in low numbers to find a decent place to study on the weekend!

And you're absolutely right, I have a VERY difficult time concentrating in places where all minibus driving soccer moms are there with their screaming, unruly, undisciplined children, running around everywhere and minibus riding teenagers are there talking loudly about absolutely NOTHING!!!

DrQueenK As a third party excuse me for chiming in, but I have to ask.

How does Sally Kern compare to the Obama Family on achievement? They were accepted at Ivy League Colleges...Ms Kern teaches 'Bible'. Her degree is a BA in Sociology (what was that about AfAms?) with a minor in History. Since she needed paid work, she went for a teaching cert. Ms Kern also follows the diktat of Phyllis Schafly. Note how Kern is a professional bully...claiming victimhood.Well, they voted her Cracker Heeyuckian self in...they deserve to be laughed at.

Love how racists cling so weepily to the madness. Why, sure you are a 'skeptic'...riiight. The word that most correctly applies is a different one. But, I'll leave you to your delusion.He still won.He still AfAm.We still like him more than McCain or Sarey.He is legitimate...:)

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Here and in swaths of many cities, evictions from rental properties are so common that they are part of the texture of life. New research is showing that eviction is a particular burden on low-income black women, often single mothers, who have an easier time renting apartments than their male counterparts, but are vulnerable to losing them because their wages or public benefits have not kept up with the cost of housing.

And evictions, in turn, can easily throw families into cascades of turmoil and debt.

“Just as incarceration has become typical in the lives of poor black men, eviction has become typical in the lives of poor black women,” said Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin whose research on trends in Milwaukee since 2002 provides a rare portrait of gender patterns in inner-city rentals.

The study found that one of every 25 renter-occupied households in the city is evicted each year. In black neighborhoods, the rate is one in 14. These figures include only court-ordered evictions; the true toll, experts say, is greater because far more tenants, under threat of eviction, move in with relatives, into more run-down apartments or, sometimes, into homeless shelters.

Barack Obama behaves as if he has no historical or cultural knowledge of “the nation over which he presides.” The president’s labeling of African Americans as “mongrels” reveals an astounding and fundamental disrespect for Black Americans as a distinct people. As an epithet, “mongrel” is an even “more powerfully shaped political charge than the ubiquitous ‘nigger!’”

This has been a short glimpse of the history of the “mongrel” term that Obama brought to the morning broadcast couch like some benign little nugget. Of course, even a president has the personal right to call himself any names he pleases. But Obama told the ladies of “The Show” and millions of viewers that “we” African Americans are “a mongrel people” – a label he is not entitled to inflict on 40 million Black folks, many of whom know full well the poisonous historical (and, yes, contemporary) properties inherent in the term. Obama’s talk show behavior is consistent with his politics, which constantly tries to erase the very idea of Black America. (As in his introduction to most Americans, at the August, 2004 Democratic National Convention: “There is no Black America…there is only the United States of America.”) In ways big and small, Obama reveals that he does not accept or respect African Americans as a distinct people, culture and polity who cannot be reduced to a flotsam and jetsam of various and sundry human parts. Apparently, that’s how he thinks of himself.

pvt school excel because of RULES and PARENTS and superior STUDENTS of all races

it is far deeper than a racial formula

it is a social formula that shines and works!and it is one that is nonexistent in all public schoolswhere teachers are forced to let the demon seed of vdlr clones destroy the educations of wonderful smart kids they sabotage and bully etc

pvt schools expel and reject and outprice the demon seed and pookie parents that public schools endure

Students who never behave will never learn. Students who are never taught to revere education at home will never excel in schools. Students who torture teachers will never encourage superior educators to remain in classrooms.

Academic ability is more important than ever before in our global economy. Children must now compete with global intellectuals. Retirement is a fiscal fantasy in an increasingly technological world, where students must learn many skills for perpetual job changes. Today, an inability to learn is suicidal.

Politicos will only continue to scapegoat and betray teachers. Those acts of cowardice are easier than dealing with the complex socioeconomic realities of toxic parenting. Fatally flawed, racist, and elitist federal educational programs like No Child Left Behind (NCLB) will never repair broken American schools. They only serve to sabotage the minority of students who revere education.

Typically, private schools do not adhere to any of the genocidal and mindless tenets of NCLB. Private schools do not tolerate misbehavior or enable abusive or absentee parents. Teachers at private schools are allowed to teach, while public school teachers are forced to compulsively test and perpetually discipline. This is a tragic national disgrace!

Excerpts from The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol:

"Pediatricians and psychiatrists may be disturbed to hear of schools where recess is truncated or abolished by the desperation to carve out a bit more time for drilling children for exams.

I thought the tests-and-standards movement had been loaded with a coarse utilitarian toxicity and a demeaning anti-human view of childhood right from the start.

By giving every particle of learning an official name, we strip it of its uniqueness.

Fascination and delight, no matter what lip-service we may pay to them, become irrelevant distractions.

Teachers who come into elementary education with some literary background tell me that they sometimes feel they are engaging in a complicated kind of treachery, when they are forced repeatedly to excavate a piece of poetry, or any other literary work of charm or value, to extract examples of official skills that have some testable utility. Nothing could be less efficient than this misappropriation of a teacher’s energy and hours.

The difference in too many schools like P. S. 65 is that nearly the entire school day comes to be a matter of unnatural theatrics that cannot be improvised to any degree without the risk of teachers being criticized by their superiors.

Leaving these kids so utterly adrift in time and place seemed like an act of state-determined cognitive decapitation.

In a nation in which fairness was respected, children of the poorest and least educated mothers would receive the most expensive and most costly pre-school preparation, not the least and cheapest, because children in these families need it so much more than those whose educated parents can deliver the same benefits of early learning to them in their home.

The inequities in educational provisions that we give, or do not give, these children from the starting gate are given less attention.

The look of tortured dignity in the eyes of many [educators] who had welcomed me remained as one of the most stirring memories of that experience."

"And what does this tell you? Does this turn on any lightbulbs? Are they Allen West's kids?"

Having been in the military (unlike you) I know that when blacks and whites and asians start from the same place and are of similar economic circumstances, there is virtually no difference in their academic performance racially.

BTW you're not suggesting that Allen West was the only negro with kids in the Army, were you?

Not to be outdone, Rev. Al Sharpton has taken a half million dollar bribe, laundered through friends of the chancellor of New York City's public schools to become an active advocate of charter schools. Even teachers unions in places like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York have utterly failed to stand up for teachers, for parents or for students.

When inner city schools are punished for scoring poorly on tests, they are stripped of their music, sports, arts and other elective programs, as if this will somehow make more kids come to school. It doesn't, and in reality it isn't intended to.

Improving education is not the goal. Privatization is the goal. The targets of school privatization are not supposedly underperforming students and teachers. The target is democracy itself. Private interests are just that – private. Turning public schools over to private interests frustrates even the possibility of democracy. Charter school apologists often claim that greater parental involvement is a hallmark of their model. But to the extent that it is true at all, it's involvement of a select group of parents, and not open to those of the entire community. Charter schools undermine what is left of community.

It's amazing how conservatives and their Uncle Tom flunkies are constantly ranting that blacks and the Dems play "identity politics" and then one of their own casually spews some blatantly racist filth like this.

BTW where is Michael Steele or Allen West on this? Any public condemnations from the GOPs HNICs?

Hell no.

But if a black person had made an offensive remark of any type, those two coons would have been buckdancing on every network news show the very next day.

McJob looked mighty appealing to tens of thousands of people in the Chicago area.

More than 75,000 job-seekers applied for 2,000 area positions with McDonald's during the fast food king's first-ever "National Hiring Day" on April 19.

Applicants packed franchises in Illinois, Southern Wisconsin and Northwest Indiana. McDonald's filled all 2,000 jobs, including more than 1,000 posts in the Chicago area alone, a McDonald's spokesperson said.

McDonald’s and its franchisees hired 62,000 people in the U.S. after receiving more than one million applications, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said today in an e-mailed statement. Previously, it said it planned to hire 50,000.

The April 19 national hiring day was the company’s first, said Danya Proud, a McDonald’s spokeswoman. She declined to disclose how many of the jobs were full- versus part-time. McDonald’s employed 400,000 workers worldwide at company-owned stores at the end of 2010, according to a company filing.

The number of applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. rose last week, a sign that progress in the labor market may be fading. Jobless claims increased by 25,000 to 429,000 in the week ended April 23, the most in three months, according to data from the Labor Department in Washington today.

In urban public schools blacks, whites and asians are rarely together.

Yeah, well, here in Brooklyn, with 2.5 million residents and hundreds of thousands of kids in school, ALL the public schools have mixed-race classes that include blacks, asians and whites.

But by high school, the schools are largely segregated. However, the segregation is a function of academic performance. The better students get into the better high schools, like Brooklyn Tech, Midwood Med/Sci, Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Townsend Harris and about 10 other competitive schools.

Both of my sons were in racially mixed classes while they were in grade school. But since then they have moved on to schools that are largely asian and white, with only a minor black presence.

The bleaching of the student body is a function of answering the test questions correctly, and there are plenty of study guides for the test.

It’s an irony so commonplace it’s become almost trite: despite the information superhighway, despite a world of knowledge at their fingertips, the younger generation today is less informed, less literate, and more self-absorbed than any that has preceded it. But why? According to the author, an English professor at Emory University, there are plenty of reasons. The immediacy and intimacy of social-networking sites have focused young people’s Internet use on themselves and their friends. The material they’re studying in school (such as the Civil War or The Great Gatsby) seems boring because it isn’t happening right this second and isn’t about them. They’re using the Internet not as a learning tool but as a communications tool: instant messaging, e-mail, chat, blogs. And the language of Internet communication, with its peculiar spelling, grammar, and punctuation, actually encourages illiteracy by making it socially acceptable. It wouldn’t be going too far to call this book the Why Johnny Can’t Read for the digital age. Some will disagree vehemently; others will nod sagely, muttering that they knew it all along. --David Pitt

Carr—author of The Big Switch (2007) and the much-discussed Atlantic Monthly story “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”—is an astute critic of the information technology revolution. Here he looks to neurological science to gauge the organic impact of computers, citing fascinating experiments that contrast the neural pathways built by reading books versus those forged by surfing the hypnotic Internet, where portals lead us on from one text, image, or video to another while we’re being bombarded by messages, alerts, and feeds. This glimmering realm of interruption and distraction impedes the sort of comprehension and retention “deep reading” engenders, Carr explains. And not only are we reconfiguring our brains, we are also forging a “new intellectual ethic,” an arresting observation Carr expands on while discussing Google’s gargantuan book digitization project. What are the consequences of new habits of mind that abandon sustained immersion and concentration for darting about, snagging bits of information? What is gained and what is lost? Carr’s fresh, lucid, and engaging assessment of our infatuation with the Web is provocative and revelatory. --Donna Seaman

It's obvious you do not understand the fact that your comments frequently include ambiguous and/or contradictory statements.

Unskilled writers suffer from their inability to put themselves in the position of their readers.

Thus, even though you may think your comments are crystal clear, they are not. And this becomes apparent in your responses to people who answer your comments.

You also impute your own conclusions based on nothing. But that's a common black error of reasoning.

As a defensive person, you feel the need to broadcast to the world your claim you've got a graduate degree. You broadcast the claim as though you think you invented the wheel.

You hammer away with your claims of having a graduate degree, an expensive car, and, if I recall, you mentioned a 5-carat diamond ring. Yet you also said your diploma hangs on the wall of your mother's office.

Weird combination. But you've got that classless sensibility that drives you to flaunt -- as much as something can be flaunted on the internet -- the materialistic trappings of prosperity.

However, all of it comes off as nonsense because you don't have a place in your home to study.

Therefore, whatever your true story is, it's not the one you've floated here.

new literary litigation looms due to DROVES of bleached elite cheaters and slackers in academia...

as usualuneducated jew peasants like u have no clue

bleach this!!!

Ivy League

Officials at Harvard College, Yale College and Princeton University say using software would undermine the trust between teachers and students. Of the three, only Princeton has an honor code for students.

``This is not a campus characterized by any kind of cheating culture or a culture where students are attempting to cut corners,'' says Peter Salovey, dean of Yale College, the undergraduate division of Yale University. ``I would rather create a culture of integrity and honesty and expect the best.''

Yale, in New Haven, Connecticut, occasionally catches a plagiarist. Salovey, 48, says he believes the offense hasn't become more prevalent during his 25 years on campus. Rather, the medium has changed: ``from library-based plagiarism to Web-based plagiarism,'' he says.

Harvard College Assistant Dean John Ellison says a campus culture where academic integrity is a pillar makes the software unnecessary. The undergraduate college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, also has concerns about privacy and retaining students' intellectual rights, he says. Papers submitted to some plagiarism-detection Web sites become part of those sites' database for checking future submissions.

``We do not think giving another company rights to hold student work is necessarily a good thing,'' Ellison says.

NYC is one of the most segregated cities in the world and most public schools are totally refelective of the segregated neighborhoods in which they exist.

stevie, you really know very little about the city you left many years ago. Hardly a surprise.

Take a look at PS 193 in Brooklyn, in the heart of an exclusively Jewish neighborhood. Guess what? At least a third of the kids in that school are black. Maybe more. I'd had to check the webpage for the school to get the exact pecentage.

There are lots of grade schools like PS 193, especially in Jewish neighborhoods. The neighboring Jews send their kids to yeshivas, which leaves plenty of empty seats in the public schools. Thus, kids from neighboring districts are encouraged to enroll. It's that simple bonehead.

The public school in the neighborhood I grew up in (PS 73) is almost totally hispanic, reflective of the demographics of the Highbridge neighborhood.

Yeah, well, the whites who lived in the Highbridge and most other parts of the Bronx got out while the gettin' was good. Like my Irish friends who lived several blocks from Yankee Stadium. They left in the early 1970s when the crime problem was too much to take.

What mixed raced neighborhoods are there in Brooklyn Slappz?

Name them.

Brownsville? Bay Ridge? Canarsie? Bushwick?

It's funny how little you know. Brownsville was an Italian and Jewish area until, you know, a lot of blacks moved in and crime soared. So today Brownsville is black and brown. Not too many white kids in the public schools there.

Bay Ridge? You bet. Though blacks are a small part of the population, Bay Ridge itself is much less than it once was. These days, it's asian, muslim, white and some blacks.

Canarsie? Ah, another area that was white but has become far more black. By mentioning Canarsie, you show how little touch you have NY City these days.

Bushwick? Your distance from the local scene gets more obvious with each neighborhood you mention. Realtors now call Bushwick by a new name -- East Williamsburg.

Whites are piling in, and they're starting families. Of course Bushwick is the actual birthplace of Jackie Gleason. He lived on Chauncey Street. But when the Honeymooners was made, the writers decided to put Chauncey Street in Bensonhurst.

You forget that I'm very familiar with NYC and your lies won't flie here.

Quite the opposite. You only know a little bit about the piece of NY City where you once lived, a place that existed a long time ago and is no longer what it once was.

For as long as exams and term papers have existed, cheating has been a temptation. But with Web technology, it's never been easier. College professors and high school teachers are engaged in an escalating war with students over cutting and pasting articles from the Internet, sharing answers on homework assignments and even texting answers during exams. The arms race is now joined between Web sites offering free papers to download and sophisticated software that can detect plagiarism instantly.

Is this apparent increase in cheating a matter of shifting morals in this new generation or something else? Are students defining cheating differently than in past decades...

pookie cheaters of all races rule the bleached ivy league and the entire doomed world

bleach this!!!

For as long as exams and term papers have existed, cheating has been a temptation. But with Web technology, it's never been easier. College professors and high school teachers are engaged in an escalating war with students over cutting and pasting articles from the Internet, sharing answers on homework assignments and even texting answers during exams. The arms race is now joined between Web sites offering free papers to download and sophisticated software that can detect plagiarism instantly.

Is this apparent increase in cheating a matter of shifting morals in this new generation or something else? Are students defining cheating differently than in past decades...

The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be here at the testing center of the University of Central Florida.

Cheat SheetTruth in Testing

Articles in this series examine cheating in education and efforts to stop it.

RelatedCheat Sheet: Under Pressure, Teachers Tamper With Tests (June 11, 2010) Readers' CommentsReaders shared their thoughts on this article.Read All Comments (300) »No gum is allowed during an exam: chewing could disguise a student’s speaking into a hands-free cellphone to an accomplice outside.

The 228 computers that students use are recessed into desk tops so that anyone trying to photograph the screen — using, say, a pen with a hidden camera, in order to help a friend who will take the test later — is easy to spot.

Scratch paper is allowed — but it is stamped with the date and must be turned in later.

When a proctor sees something suspicious, he records the student’s real-time work at the computer and directs an overhead camera to zoom in, and both sets of images are burned onto a CD for evidence.

Dr.QueenK said...You hammer away with your claims of having a graduate degree, an expensive car, and, if I recall, you mentioned a 5-carat diamond ring. Yet you also said your diploma hangs on the wall of your mother's office.>>>>>>>>

I decided to focus on this statement because it highlights racist white disdain for blacks who are professionally and materially FAR more successful than they are.

1) Someone said something about me being a baby Mama once. I replied that I had 5 carats that say otherwise.

2) Someone suggested I drive a jalopy. I suggested the Germans don't make Jalopys and kept the exact make and series of my fine driving machine to myself to keep you racists from choking on your own envy.

3) Someone suggested I didn't know anything about Science. I responded that I have 2 science degrees including 2 Master's in Science which say otherwise.

4) Someone asked that I "prove" I have Master's degrees. I said I'd have to first retrieve them from the wall of my Mother's office. Now imagine that, a 60 year old negro woman who not only parks her German jalopy in the garage of her 5 bedroom home, she actually has the nerve to have an office off the kitchen too! D*mn, negroes!!!!

So in the end, all you REALLY proved is that despite the obvious advantages of your whitsh skin (I personally don't think Jews are white), you're worse off that your average Huxtable-ish Black family!!!

The bad news is that you've got a LOT of company hating on successful Black folks on this blog. The good news is that you're literally SURROUNDED by successful Black folks on THIS blog.

For as long as exams and term papers have existed, cheating has been a temptation. But with Web technology, it's never been easier. College professors and high school teachers are engaged in an escalating war with students over cutting and pasting articles from the Internet, sharing answers on homework assignments and even texting answers during exams. The arms race is now joined between Web sites offering free papers to download and sophisticated software that can detect plagiarism instantly.

I love the informative articles you post!

My thoughts are that students can and should be evaluated on their classroom performance. I think the students answers to pointed and selected questions and classroom participation can be more than enough to evaluate, and perhaps that is the wave of the future.

I say this because before I got sick I had gone back to begin work on my Masters. One of the professors gave internet exams which required a password that the proctor had. Well one student was a good friend of the proctor who gavehim the password so he could do the exam from his home! Nice! They were caught but the rest of us always wondered who else was doing this.

"Take a look at PS 193 in Brooklyn, in the heart of an exclusively Jewish neighborhood."

What neighborhood is that Slappy?

"Guess what? At least a third of the kids in that school are black. Maybe more. I'd had to check the webpage for the school to get the exact pecentage."

When you find it, post the link.

But you won't because you're lying.

"Yeah, well, the whites who lived in the Highbridge and most other parts of the Bronx got out while the gettin' was good. Like my Irish friends who lived several blocks from Yankee Stadium. They left in the early 1970s when the crime problem was too much to take."

More lies. Most ran at the first sign of blacks. Simple as that. Most of the blacks who first moved to neighborhoods like Highbridge were better educated and higher earning than the working class whites who lived there. I was born in 1960 and my childhood playmates were Irish kids whose fathers worked at the Huntspoint docks or for the city. My mother was a Registered Nurse and my dad was a Correction Officer.

By 1970 most of whites were gone but it was still a pretty stable black and brown neighborhood with intact families and employed fathers.

All that changed in the 80s.

"It's funny how little you know. Brownsville was an Italian and Jewish area until, you know, a lot of blacks moved in and crime soared."

You really are an idiot. Brownsville was a lower working class crime ridden neighborhood since the 40s. Didn't you see "Goodfellas"?

"So today Brownsville is black and brown. Not too many white kids in the public schools there."

Very few white kids in the NYC Public School system and you know that.

"Quite the opposite. You only know a little bit about the piece of NY City where you once lived, a place that existed a long time ago and is no longer what it once was."

NYC is as segregated as it always has been and you've said nothing to disprove that.

once again ure a gottdam liar miss wannabe dawktaw queefkin uve lied so much about how many alleged degrees uve acquired u cannot even remember what uve said u pathetic festering pile of shyt! first it was four degrees then five then three now its two and then u have to drive 35 miles to a place to study? ure a gottdam liar and if u were worth ur salt as a scientist ude ha made deals with ur local coroner so u wouldnt have to drive so far to do ur dissections ure basically a phukking lyin sack of shyt and even ignint ass ballzack can see thru ur racist lie btw why is the lab closed on weekends usually most labs are open on saturdays so the post grads and grads can go over their whatnots once again ure making up lies that r divorced from reality u gottdam shytllickin imbecile! phd in bioinformatics when u dont know what the phukk biomedical sciences is? please! bytch please!

this one takes the cake though u toss out the name of an hiv docking station and try to sound smart but any first year student in immunology knows about it ure a sick twisted liar with no purpose but to spread discord and piss smelling weaves go back to the alley to service that viagra taking finga wave wearin nigga who only pays u cuz he's cheap and dont mind tuna fish for dinner

The area is 100% white. But according to the linked website, the school population is 52% black, 13% hispanic, 18% white and 16% asian.

It seems you never tire of getting pummeled by the facts.

As for the whole NY City schools system, it is 14% white, 14% asian, about 35% black and 35% hispanic.

And every kid is offered the same opportunity to get into the better schools. Those who do some work -- and it's not that much -- get into better schools they they move to junior and senior high school.

The best students get into the best high schools. It's not a lottery, it's a matter of merit.

Anyway, even your view of the Bronx is limited. My friends from there are Jewish and Irish, all college educated, and most have graduate degrees, most commonly law degrees. The families left when crime rose.

Of course, your own comments make it plain that you understand the reality. Even you will have trouble blaming the exodus of whites for the fact that blacks and hispanics in the Bronx were committing a lot of crimes.

And, it seems you believe the way to learn the history of a city is to watch movies like Goodfellas.

You might get a more accurate picture of the Goodfellas story if you were to read the book from which it was made -- Wiseguys, by Nicholas Pileggi.

Stevie weavy boy you are a pookie head, as if the racial makeup of a neighborhood determines the makeup of schools. Everyone knows that in the interest of "desegregation" blacks have been brought in by bus to destroy white schools since the 60's. You know what a school bus looks like stevie right? It's a bigger version of the short one you still take and you can see them all over the streets of NY bringin and taking kids to and from school. Just where did you think those buses were going anyway?

Dr.QueenK said... Dr.QueenK said...3) Someone suggested I didn't know anything about Science. I responded that I have 2 science degrees including 2 Master's in Science which say otherwise.>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Opps math error, that should read 3 Science degree's, I left out the Bachelor's in Chemistry.

Ha-Ha thanks for the laugh. This is definitely a put-on. MOLD where you been all day? Nice character build here, a ghetto talkin racist Older Negro 60 year old woman, with 3 science degrees, mysterious published scientific theories - hinted at aids research, ex marine, lives in a 5 bedroom house, going to be a DR now at 60, has a hard time studying with noisy white racists who mysteriously bring the whole family to the morgue or school lab so they can also dissect cadavers.

Little tip next time, go smaller. The way this character thinks and speaks you know right away it is a ghetto ho at best. No one could ever believe they could ever take on the self discipline and responsibility it would take to earn 3 degrees and still go for a fourth at 60 while obviously being so racist that everything in life is a white persons fault. Finger pointing shows a lack of personal responsibity and aversion to hard work associated with the same.

A little over the top, but good entertainment. The first giveaway to help you some more is all the bragging with nothing to back it up, don't say you have a published paper to prove how proud you are and then ignore everyone who says really on what, can I see it.

Anyway overall good job Mold, some people bought your invented character hook line and sinker.

UTS, it is the 'miracle' of Intertube Google that lets a rural wite boy pretend they live in the eveelbigcity. While they may have something worth saying, trying to add 'authority' by using material that they know Zippo about...defeats their purpose.I would much rather hear a well-reasoned statement from rural wite dude from Dingle's Ferry PA...who wrote from their knowledge...than from the same person trying to fake worldly wisdom and urban blase'. The most astute political observer I ever met was an illiterate, tooth-deficient hillbilly who married a close relative. He was also quite unfamiliar with the concept of washing. However, he never once pretenderated to being a Great Mind...just spoke what he thought...and was correct.No, he was not a Harvard grad...but wasn't bush one? Use Facts, Truth and be honest. One may feel slighted that I was fortunate...but we are equal citizens and a rational, Fact-based opinion is always welcome.

Dr.QueenK said...Racists like Slappy will NEVER admit their complicity in the criminally inadequate education of brown children.------

The inadequate education of brown children in 2011 has nothing to do with the whims of "racists". It has everything to do with the entities directly in charge of the education of brown children: corrupt big city education systems and teacher's unions whose first priority is protecting their members and doing what is best regarding the education of children.

Why are inner city schools "crumbling" when they receive higher per pupil spending than suburban or rural schools? Where is all the money going? Are "racists" stealing it?

In truth, parents have the biggest impact on educational outcomes for any color children.

Rev Wite, again with the fibs. Unions do not reduce education. Wonder why you repeat this lie. As far as eveelbigcity unions...don't your local wite schools have union teachers?Why are you not trying to RIF them? How about cutting their pay? Oh...getting rid of union standards allows the hiring of Goobers as teachers. Then there is the moneymaking aspects. Calling it 'work-study' sounds so much better than 'renting out small children to work cheaply for jerkholes'. And there is 'credit'...but only with other unaccredited skools. We could mention that nearly all charter/christian/cyber skools are designed to not educate students for the highest possible profit. By the time the underfunded and overworked regulators shut down the scam...HeadMassa Heeyuck done already moved out of the US with the money.Instead of lying about schools, ask why they cost 'more'. Could it be the buildings are well beyond their design life? Could it be the poor have things...like eating...that have to be included with the school budget? Could it be that liars fer jesus place items on the school budget that are not usually placed there? Abstinence scams are one such waste. But you'll note that many districts dump this pustulent crap on the public budget. Wonder why?Keep pretenderating that being wite will save you when the crash comes. Kochs need only so many suckers.

Dr.QueenK said...One more thing Diamond, that little diatribe of yours just proves that YOU are one the cowardly harassing for the past 2 years, assnons I responded to since you seem to have taken my posts so damn personal.

So like I said before, teaming up with the cowardly assnonynous white b*tches on the blog.

Fruitcake, LOL!!!!

I told you to save your phony LOLs.

Yeah, I am anonymous. But you are worser than an "assanon." You are a fraud. No one knows who you are. If you are such a proponent of disclosure, why don't you disclose the things you boast about? Practice what you preach.

Well, you've disclosed through your pollution that you are a toxic idiot.

It's obvious you do not understand the fact that your comments frequently include ambiguous and/or contradictory statements.

Unskilled writers suffer from their inability to put themselves in the position of their readers.

Thus, even though you may think your comments are crystal clear, they are not. And this becomes apparent in your responses to people who answer your comments.

You also impute your own conclusions based on nothing. But that's a common black error of reasoning.

As a defensive person, you feel the need to broadcast to the world your claim you've got a graduate degree. You broadcast the claim as though you think you invented the wheel.

You hammer away with your claims of having a graduate degree, an expensive car, and, if I recall, you mentioned a 5-carat diamond ring. Yet you also said your diploma hangs on the wall of your mother's office.

Weird combination. But you've got that classless sensibility that drives you to flaunt -- as much as something can be flaunted on the internet -- the materialistic trappings of prosperity.

However, all of it comes off as nonsense because you don't have a place in your home to study.

Therefore, whatever your true story is, it's not the one you've floated here.

I don't agree with much that you say, but I couldn't have said it better myself.

UTS, another thing the Goobers 'forgeterate' is that the public school subsidizes them.Transport, food, texts, sports, services...all somehow are never included in the cost per pupil...for a skool...but your taxes paid dearly for them.Transport...about 2X public studentFood...roughly 10X public studentTexts...at least 3XSports...around 2XServices...OMG!Part of it is the lying fer jesus, part is the numerical illiteracy, part is sales (hiding true cost), certain religio-crazee themes don't meet minimal State education standards, and some is just that there is no economy of scale.Sit on School Board meetings and see how often the Beleefers try to get Freebies for their oh-so-much-more special offspring...and have you pay for it. Not to share, like them eveel Socialistics in eveel Scandanavia...but to have you give them more.Funny, their kids could be much more ministerial in a public school. All those 'other sinners' to preach to. My personal vote was to always scrap the 'boutique' skools and use the money in the public schools. For the excessive cost of just one skool, we could have a District-wide Arts program, a Music program, and counselors for conflicted teens. The Goober-versities were retained...and every single one was involved in fraud, waste and abuse. Call me Cassandra.

As I said, the school in the all-white district is PS 193, the Gil Hodges school.

Googling "PS 193 Gil Hodges School" takes you right to the list of links for the school.

If you're Downs Syndrome is in temporary remission, go to the site and look at the links listed down the left side of the page. Click on the link for Statistics and Budget.

I'll let you take it from there. Anyway, the statistics I gave you are accurate. Over 50% of the students are black.

As for your claim that Staten Island and City Island are the source of white students, well, once again you show your complete separation from NY City.

Unfortunately for Staten Island, it has a substantial number of black and hispanic residents who account for almost all the publich housing occupants and almost all the crime. But the population of Staten Island is about 100,000, so it hardly moves the meter for the city.

City Island? A tiny enclave.

The white students are from Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. Of course there is Bronx Science High School, which is mostly white and mostly attended by kids from the Bronx and Manhattan. And some of the students are black.

Meanwhile, I suppose in your inverted mind, you believe if all the blacks from the Bronx were simply enrolled at Bronx Science, they would somehow absorb as much knowledge as the kids who passed the entrance test.

It's an old school, by the way. Some might call it "crumbling", but, it's not. But many city schools are old, however they were built like fortresses, so even though they are nearly 100 years old, they are no more likely to crumble than an English castle.

Anon 28310, have to agree that being an Anonymous person has benefits. Still, I wonder why one feels the need to create a fictional persona...but not have it consistent with Reality?It is much easier to write from actual Fact...then to hope people don't notice the glaring errors.During some abortion debate I was stalked by a very creepy loser. Because I was vocal, correct, and easily destroyed the loser's non-points. Being 'uppity' and someone who should be silent when gawd-fearin' mens was talkin'...got me phone calls, vandalism, and threats. I was prepared. I don't wish to revisit that kind of idiocy.

Anon28310 said...Yeah, I am anonymous. But you are worser than an "assanon." You are a fraud. No one knows who you are. If you are such a proponent of disclosure, why don't you disclose the things you boast about? Practice what you preach.>>>>>>>>>>>

Proponent of disclosure? Not sure who you have me confused with Diamond, but I haven't talked at ALL of being a "proponent of disclosure".

What I HAVE said is that Prez Obama should have told Chump to kiss his black ass after he demanded the birth cert, and he NEVER, EVER should have acquiesced and provided it anyway.

Black folks have never been able to prove anything to a racist cracka', so why waste time?

As for being "worser" than ass-non, don't you EVER say another mutha bleeping thing to me about proper use of the english language, Okay Diamond?

In fact, my search shows a population of 490,000, and things break down racially as follows:

white: 78%

black 10%

hispanic: 12%

asian: 6%

Anyway, as always, your goofy arguments boil down to the standard black grievance of being victimized by whites, but there's still no black nation that stands as proof that blacks can successfully govern any society larger than a street gang.

"Detroit spends the third highest amount of money per student among 76 large cities nationwide­. Statewide, Detroit's spending per pupil is in the 91st percentile and DPS teachers are paid at the 96th percentile­. For all that, by almost any measure Detroit schools have for decades failed their students: test scores, safety, drop out rates, etc."

http://www­.mackinac.­org/10743

"Public school per-pupil spending, taking inflation into account, is now 14 times higher than it was 70 years ago. On average, public schools now spend close to $7,000 per student per year, twice the average at private schools. In some inner-city public school districts, such as Hartford, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, etc. an annual outlay of roughly $9,000 per pupil is so poorly managed that many schools are falling apart and failing even to supply their own bathrooms with toilet paper"

http://www.schoolchoices.org/roo/spending.htm

According to a 2007 article in The Washington Post, the Washington D.C. public school district spends $12,979 per student per year. This is the third highest level of funding per student out of the 100 biggest school districts in the U.S. Despite this high level of funding, the school district has produced outcomes that are lower than the national average. In reading and math, the district's students score the lowest among 11 major school districts – even when poor children are compared with other poor children. 33% of poor fourth graders in the U.S. lack basic skills in math, but in Washington D.C., it's 62%.[97] In 2004, the U.S. Congress set up a voucher program for low income minority students in Washington D.C. to attend private schools. The vouchers were $7,500 per student per year. The parents said their children were receiving a much better education from the private schools. In 2007, Washington D.C. non-voting delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said she wanted the voucher program to be eliminated, and that the public schools needed more money.[98] Secretary of Education Arne Duncan supports retaining vouchers for the district only, as do some DC parent groups )One of the Obama administration education department's first act was to withdraw support for this program).

Anonymous said...Anon 28310, have to agree that being an Anonymous person has benefits.

Still, I wonder why one feels the need to create a fictional persona...but not have it consistent with Reality?

It is much easier to write from actual Fact...then to hope people don't notice the glaring errors.During some abortion debate I was stalked by a very creepy loser. Because I was vocal, correct, and easily destroyed the loser's non-points. Being 'uppity' and someone who should be silent when gawd-fearin' mens was talkin'...got me phone calls, vandalism, and threats. I was prepared. I don't wish to revisit that kind of idiocy.

Mold

Mold,

I will no longer fuel this fire. I will just read and direct comments to folks with whom I agree. I'll keep any disagreements to myself.

I'll leave the agitators be.

Arguing on the Internet is like the Special Olympics. If you win, you are still retarded.

Arguing on the Internet is like the Special Olympics. If you win, you are still retarded.

I hearby concede victory to the agitators.

another words steve with weave has won, the special olympics. He will brag about this forever, all he had to do was look facts in the eye and say no, no, naanna, naanna weener does are lies... yup, he is the king of special olympics allright. Affirm Action Steve with the weave. It's all someone else's fault...

Rev Wite, the 'sorce' of sales pitch...mackinac.org...is a Fundie/Fwee Market bunch. The same ones who are trying to eliminate wages and benefits in MI for those not born wealthy . They also are trying to 'dumb down' the labour pool...as education increases your wage rate.You might mention that some of the belongerators to this fine org are Mobsters, the group that still tells us it was horrible awful terrible eveel that Bill C didn' have to pay, the Kochs, and a host of inherited wealthy.Schoolchoices is a CATO astroturf effort. What a wonderful 'sorce' Folks who tell us that we can't afford school for our kids...but somehow our taxes pay for the skools their kids attend. Amazing. Almost like they plan to make our kids uneducated, cheap and disposable labour for their oh-so-much better sprats. Hmmm...maybe it's because their Gooberite youn-uns get their pale butts handed to them without a fixed game. Oh, one of the groups they tout is one from PA...and very much connected with fraud, waste and abuse of funds. Seems that skoolers like to buy a nice new Rolls...but forgotted to purchase texts...or pay the teachers...or any of the bills. Like I would trust the sales pitch of a scam artist. At least with the public schools, I have input and can run for Board. Wonder how one gets to decide if it am fer-profit? Must be that better wite genetics.

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